Helen Bartlett Ltd. Website Privacy Policy

This is the privacy policy for the website www.helenbartlett.co.uk (“Website”) and governs the privacy of its users. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is deemed to occur upon your first use of our site.

We treat your data in the way we would wish our personal information to be treated. This policy sets out how this website processes, stores and protects user data and information and sets out the obligations and requirements of the website users, the website and the website owner, Helen Bartlett Ltd. (“we”, “us” or “our”).

What does this policy cover?

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of the Website and not to any other sites accessible through links to third party sites.

Personal information is as defined by EU Regulation 2016/679 commonly known as the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR.

Collecting information

Most pages of the website can be accessed without giving personal information. However, if you fill in the contact form or sign up to my newsletter we will ask you for:

Name

Email address

Postal address

We may also collect information on your IP address, web browser (type and version), operating system, a list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on Our Site, and the site you exit to.

How do we use your data?

Our use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis, either because it is necessary for Our performance of a contract with you, because you have consented to Our use of your personal data (e.g. by subscribing to emails), or because it is in Our legitimate interests. Specifically, we may use your data for:

Supplying Our products and services to you (please note that we require your personal data in order to enter into a contract with you);

Replying to emails from you;

provide you with further information about your family photography;

Analysing your use of the Website to enable us to continually improve the Website and your user experience

All personal data is processed and stored securely, for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. We will comply with Our obligations and safeguard your rights under the GDPR at all times.

Where and for how long is data stored?

We only keep your personal data for as long as We need to in order to use it as described above and/or for as long as We have your permission to keep it.

Do we share your data?

We will not share any of your data with any third parties for any purposes unless we are legally required to share certain data held by us, which may include your personal data, for example, where we are involved in legal proceedings, where we are complying with legal obligations, a court order, or a governmental authority.

Your activity on the website is also recorded through use of cookies.

Cookies

This website contains cookies to give you a better user experience. Cookies are small text-only files that are saved to the user’s computer to track, save and store information about how you use the website.

Cookies do not give access us or any other person to your computer. Information collected by cookies is only used for statistical analysis and is then removed from the system. Cookies help us to provide a better website by allowing us to monitor which webpages are found to be useful and improve our website accordingly.

This website uses Google Analytics to recognise and count the number of visitors and how those visitors move around the website allowing us to improve the way the website works, by, for example ensuring you can find the information you are looking for easily.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can modify your browser settings or ad in third party software extensions to decline cookies if you prefer.

Contact form and communications from us

Users filling in the contact form do so at their own discretion. Your personal details are kept on a secure private database until they are no longer required or have no use, as detailed in the GDPR. All efforts have been made to ensure a safe and secure contact form submission process.

If you have signed up to the email newsletter then your details will be added to our mailing list. You can unsubscribe from the mailing at any time and this does not affect your additional rights under GDPR which our policy is designed to uphold. These rights include:

the right to be informed about our collection and use of personal data;

the right of access to the personal data we hold about you

the right to rectification if any personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete (please contact us using the Contact Form or addresses provided in this notice);

the right to be forgotten – i.e. the right to ask us to delete any personal data we hold about you (We only hold your personal data for a limited time, as explained in but if you would like us to delete it sooner, please contact us using the Contact Form or addresses provided in this notice);

The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data;

the right to data portability (obtaining a copy of your personal data to re-use with another service or organisation);

the right to object to us using your personal data for particular purposes; and

rights with respect to automated decision making and profiling.

External links

Occasionally we may link to other companies in our blog posts if they are relevant to the content and users are advised that, while we endeavour to only include safe links, we cannot guarantee the contents of any external websites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time (for example, if the law changes). Any changes will be immediately posted on the Website and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of the Website following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.

Contact

If you would like to contact me in respect of this privacy notice you can email info@helenbartlett.co.uk or call on 0345 603 1373

If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, please contact us using the details provided above and we will do our best to solve the problem for you.

If we are unable to help, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Ready to get in touch? I’d love to chat about planning your family photography shoot and telling your story. Give me a call or send me a message, I’d be delighted to hear from you. I can’t wait to get to know your family and create beautiful photographs for you and your family to enjoy.